Sweat-pad



N R U B Y R H M M m SWEAT PAD.

No. 456,065. Patented July 14, 1891.

INVENTOH.

JZZZW jzyza 77L, By M ATTORNEYS- mz News PRTERS co, nmmrumo wnsm-mrnu,u, c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY RYBURN, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

SWEAT-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,065, dated July 14,1891.

Application filed March 16, 1891- Serial No. 385,295. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY RYBURN, of Bloomington, in the county ofMcLean and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Sweat and Collar Pads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved sweat and collar pad combined; and itconsists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, aswill be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are respectively top plan and sectionalviews of the pad with the parts adjusted to position for use upon a soreneck, and Fig. 3 shows the pad as ready for use when the neck is notsore.

The pad may be a stuffed cushion-pad, as shown, or it may be of felt orother suitable material, and in general shape the pad may be similar tothe ordinary pad. At its center or portion which rests upon the top ofthe neck the pad A is formed with an opening B, leaving narrow sidestrips 0 0, connecting the main pad-sections on opposite sides of suchopening. The opening B is made suiticiently large to fit over anyordinary sore at the top of the neck, and the strips 0 C are at alltimes separated and in the position shown in Fig. 1. To close thisopening B, and for the further purpose of lifting the top part of thecollar clear of the neck when sore, I providethe flaps D, extending fromthe opposite ends of the opening B and adapted to be utilized to closesuch opening, as shown in Fig. 3, or to be turned back and over, asshown in Figs. 1 and 2, to raise the collar entirely off the sore. Theseflaps D are preferably made tapering toward their free ends and are ofsuch shape and size that when turned to the position shown in Fig. 2they together fill the opening B. Medicine may be applied to the sorewhen the top of the pad is open, as the sore is then free of weight orpressure.-

Strings E or other suitable fastenings may be employed to hold the flapsin position to close the opening B.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new is 1'. A padhaving an opening and provided with flaps adapted to be turned outwardto expose the opening or to be turned inward to close such opening,substantially as shown and described.

2. A pad having an opening B and provided with flaps extended from theopposite ends of said opening, tapered toward their free ends, andadapted to fill the opening B when properly adjusted for such purpose,substantially as set forth.

. HARRY RYBURN.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. MORRISSEY, CHAS. I. WILL.

